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London, C. Corrall and G. Pickering, 1822. In 32°. Two volumes, frontispiece portrait of Dante engraved by Grave after a design by Morghen, red percale bindings. § Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy. Florence, Davide Passigli, 1840. In 24°. 85 x 50 mm. Splendid romantic blue morocco binding, with blind embossing on the covers and gold decorations, gilt edges.
Specialist Notes
First edition : Edition edited by the famous bookseller G.Pickering (London 1796 - 1854) in the Miniature Classic series also known as Diamond Classics , small-format volumes (including editions of Petrarch, Shakespeare, Homer and the Bible), with great care taken in the choice of characters and composition, also introducing a change in the type of bindings made using percale cloths which had been little used until then.
Second edition : Mambelli n.216, p.111: "A very rare edition, with text and arguments printed in very small characters."
Second edition : Mambelli n.216, p.111: "A very rare edition, with text and arguments printed in very small characters."
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